Oneness Pentecostalism

Upcoming Urshan Symposium of Apostolic Pentecostal Scholars

Daniel Segraves

February 15-16, 2024

David Johnson, M.T.S., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College (in progress) has invited me to present a paper at the upcoming Urshan Symposium of Apostolic Pentecostal Scholars, scheduled for February 15-16, 2024 on the campus of Urshan College and Urshan Graduate School of Theology located at 155 Urshan Way, Wentzville, Missouri 63385. David Johnson is the academic dean at U.G.S.T. For more information, see https://ugst.edu/events/ugst-symposium.

I am happy to accept this invitation. Some of you may know that my ability to travel and speak, and even to do much teaching at our home church, The Sanctuary UPC in Hazelwood, Missouri, has been limited for about two years due to health challenges. But I am so thankful to God and for all who have prayed for me that my health has improved dramatically, enabling me to be more active during the past three months. I was able to teach the adult Bible class each Sunday during August. My topic was “First Century Jewish Christology.” The videos of each of the four lessons and the 120 slides I prepared to accompany the lessons are posted here on my blog.

The tentative title for the paper I will present at the symposium is “Aramaic and LXX Influences on the Messianic Psalms.” The paper will reflect the work I have been doing for volume two of my commentary on the Psalter.

Shortly before His ascent, Jesus said to His disciples, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me” (Luke 24:44). With these words, Jesus “opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures” (Luke 24:45).

One of my prayers is that God would help me to comprehend how the Scriptures testify of Jesus. I hope you can join us at the symposium. I look forward to sharing some of the insights I believe Scripture offers us about the Messiah from the Aramaic Targums and the Greek Septuagint.

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15% discount on my books until July 14, 2023

Daniel Segraves

I am often asked how many books I have written. The number is twenty-one. I’m now working on number twenty-two, which will be the second volume of my commentary on Psalms. I would, of course, like to get these books into the hands of as many readers as possible. Like preachers, pastors, and teachers, Christian authors have a sense of calling, and they believe God has given them a message they need to communicate to people of faith.

For that reason, I’m happy to tell you that the Pentecostal Publishing House, now known as the Pentecostal Resources Group, has informed me that I can offer a 15% discount on all of my books and other resources from now through July 14, 2023, which is the last day of the Arkansas District Camp Meeting.

Tim Gaddy, the district superintendent of the Arkansas District of the United Pentecostal Church International, has asked me to do the Bible teaching for the Arkansas district’s camp meeting this year, which is scheduled for July 12-14. Due to scheduling challenges, the Pentecostal Publishing House will not have a display set up at the camp meeting. That is the reason the discount is available. We want to make these resources as accessible as possible.

How to obtain the 15% discount

Keep in mind the discount code is DS15. You can take advantage of this special discount by phone or email.

Customer Service Phone: 866-819-7667

Customer Service Email: customerservice@pentecostalpublishing.com

In order to see the fifty-two resources available, check out the PPH website at pentecostalpublishing.com. Type “Segraves” in the search window. This will enable you to see each of the twenty-one books by title and with brief descriptions. One is available in the Spanish language as well a English. Some are offered as e-books as well as in hard copy. In addition to the books, resources are available as CDs. Here is a summary of what you will find:

Verse by verse commentaries:

Romans: Living by Faith
Hebrews: Better Things
James: Faith at Work
First Peter: Standing Fast in the Grace of God
Second Peter and Jude
Proverbs: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
Doctrine:

God in Flesh
Hair Length in  the Bible
The Messiah's Name: JESUS, not Yahshua
Elohim and the Plural Passages (audio and video)
The Influence of Hellenistic Philosophy on the Development of Christology to Chalcedon (audio)
Binding and Loosing: The Authority of the Church (audio)
The Holy Spirit (This 314 page hard-back book is my most recent publication. It is a treatment of apostolic pneumatology that explores nearly every reference to the Holy Spirit in the entire Bible, beginning with Genesis 1:2 and ending with Revelation 22:17.
Christian Growth:

Insights for Christian Living
You Can Understand the Bible
If God Loves Me, Why Am I Hurting?
Spiritual Gifts
That Which is Perfect
Biblical Studies:

The Messiah in the Psalms, 1-72: Discovering Christ in Unexpected Places
Reading Between the Lines: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament
Themes from a Letter to Rome
Prophecy:

Looking Forward: A Clear View of Biblical Prophecy (available in English and Spanish)
Biography:

Andrew D. Urshan: A Theological Biography
This 312 page book is a professionally edited treatment of my Ph.D. dissertation on the life and theology of Andrew D. Urshan, one of the four most influential early twentieth century Oneness Pentecostals.
General Conference, Daniel Segraves 2001:

This CD is a recording of my defense of the genuineness of Christ's humanity.

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“The sick … shall recover” (Mark 16:18).

Daniel Segraves

Daniel and Susan Segraves

Near Father’s Day 2021, I was diagnosed with a disease heard of by few people … smoldering myeloma.

My primary care physician had noted something of concern in my annual bloodwork, and she recommended that I see a hematologist at least some time within the next four months. It was my understanding that it can be difficult to get an appointment with a doctor with the necessary skills. The Lord opened the door for me quickly; I had an appointment the next day.

My diagnosis called for a two-year plan of treatment. Over this time, I experienced a significant change in lifestyle, limiting travel, physical movement, and speaking engagements.

Today, on May 23, 2023, at 1 p.m., I met with my hematologist and received the good news that my bloodwork is normal and that I can discontinue the medications. I will not need to see this specialist until August 23 of this year for a follow-up examination. In the meantime, I can travel and teach. In other words, God has enabled me to resume a life of health that I can live for His glory.

I have experienced the healing hand of our Lord!

It seems significant to me now that when Tim Gaddy, the district superintendent of the Arkansas District of the United Pentecostal Church International invited me to speak at the Arkansas District Camp Meeting in July of this year, he asked me to teach on the subjects of the Gifts of the Spirit and Signs and Wonders. He made this request before he was aware of my diagnosis.

I hope to see some of you at this camp meeting. As I frequently mention when I am in Arkansas, my spiritual roots run deep in this state. It is where I was baptized with the Holy Spirit as a young boy during the 1950s. This was in Rector, where my father, Glen Segraves, served as pastor from 1953 to 1959.

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The Arkansas District Camp Meeting is scheduled for July 11-14, 2023.

Daniel Segraves

Tim Gaddy, District Superintendent for the Arkansas District of the United Pentecostal Church International, has asked me to teach at the upcoming Arkansas District Camp Meeting. The Camp Meeting will convene on July 11-14 at the campgrounds in Redfield, Arkansas.

I am scheduled to teach at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday on the topics of the Gifts of the Spirit and Signs and Wonders. Other speakers include Joel Urshan, Stan Gleason, and Elias Limones.

I appreciate this opportunity and look forward to sharing fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ in the Arkansas District.

My spiritual roots run deep in Arkansas, where my father, Glen Segraves, was pastor of the church in Rector from 1953 to 1959. It was in Rector that I was baptized with the Holy Spirit.

My wife Susan and I are grateful for the invitation to come to Arkansas once again. Many of you know the story of how our Lord brought us together. We are now in our tenth year of marriage! God has been good to us!

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Oneness Pentecostalism: Race, Gender, and Culture

Daniel Segraves

Grant Wacker, the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School, wrote the foreword for the recently released Oneness Pentecostalism: Race, Gender, and Culture. This 263-page hardback volume is published by The Pennsylvania State University Press and edited by Lloyd D. Barba, Andrea Shan Johnson, and Daniel Ramirez.

In addition to Wacker’s foreword, the book includes a list of illustrations, acknowledgments, and an introduction titled “Remapping the History of North American Oneness Pentecostalism,” with contributions from each editor.

Ten chapters explore the variety of topics to which the subtitle alludes, offering insights on race, gender, and culture from the perspective of Oneness Pentecostalism as it developed from the early twentieth century. The author of each chapter is a scholar in the field whose academic qualifications are presented in a list of contributors on page 251.

Here are the chapter titles with the authors’ names:

  1. The Unresolved Issue: A Third-World Perspective on the Oneness Question, Manuel Gaxiola
  2. Evangelical Origins of Oneness Pentecostal Theology, David A. Reed
  3. Sounding Out Diversity in Pentecostal History: Early Oneness Hymnody, Daniel Ramirez
  4. Andrew D. Urshan: An Eastern Voice in Early Oneness Pentecostalism, Daniel L. Segraves
  5. The Dust District: Okies, Authority, and the Hard-Liner Transformation of California Pentecostalism, Lloyd D. Barba
  6. The Braziers: Three Generations of Apostolic Activism, Rosa M. Sailes
  7. Bossed and Bothered: Authority and Gender in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Dana Coleby Delgado
  8. Trust God to Provide for the Difference: The Economic and Opportunity Costs of Being Female and a Preacher, Andrea Shan Johnson
  9. Women in the Luz del Mundo Church: A Transnational Study, Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola
  10. Liturgical Spaces in Mexican Oneness Pentecostalism: Architectural and Spatial Dimensions, Daniel Chiquete

The volume concludes with a final offering by the editors titled “Navigating New Paths to Old Landmarks,” followed by a ten-page index.

The need for this work is captured in Wacker’s first paragraph:

“Four score and seven years ago” – or so it now seems – I wrote a long essay on “Bibliography and Historiography” for the landmark Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (1988). For a young historian wading into uncharted waters, it was, I hope, a useful effort. Yet looking at that essay today, I am shocked – though not really surprised – by the topics that I shortchanged. The most notable was Oneness Pentecostalism.

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